NEWS. 
Dr. W. NYLANDER, the Nestor of lichenologists, died in Parison March 
29, in his seventy-eighth year. 
Messrs. HAROLD Lyon and W. H. Wheeler have been appointed assist- 
ants in botany in the University of Minnesota. 
Mr. JOHN Louis SHELDON has been appointed assistant in botany, to 
give instruction in the School of Agriculture of the University of Nebraska. 
Ortro BOCKELER, a pharmacist of Varel, Oldenburg, known for his 
systematic studies on the genus Carex, died on March 5, at the great age 
of 95. 
Mr. ALBERT T. BELL, of the University of Nebraska, will visit the 
Republican valley in the course of the summer, with a special view to collect- 
ing Uredinez. 
Dr. Ropney H. TRUE has resigned the assistant professorship of pharma- 
cognosy at the University of Wisconsin. He expects to spend the next year 
in reading and research at Harvard University. 
Dr. CHARLES E. Bessey, of the University of Nebraska, will shortly 
visit the foothills of western Nebraska, collecting specimens and making 
phytogeographical notes in the region above 1200" altitude. . 
PROFESSOR Dr. GUNTHER BECK, Ritter von Mannagetta, has been 
appointed professor of botany, and director of the botanical garden of the 
German University of Prag, as successor to Dr. R. von Wettstein. 
PROFESSOR JOHN MACOuN will be engaged during the summer in field 
work upon Sable‘island, “ the graveyard of the Atlantic.” Later in the season 
he will examine botanically some of the remote parts of New Brunswick. 
Mk. JARED G, Situ, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has been 
transferred from the Division of Agrostology, and after June 30 will be asso- 
ciated with Mr. O. F. Cook in the Section of Seed and Plant Introduction of 
the Division of Botany. 
Dr. J. N. Rose, of the U.S. National Museum, left Washington about 
May | for an absence of three months in central and southern Mexico. He 
will make a special study of the genus Agave, especially those species used 
in the making of pulque and mescal, and will visit the tequila plantations of 
western Jalisco. An investigation of the Tampico hemp industry will also be 
496 [JUNE 
